Hi, last year my wrist sprained. Took 2 months to recover. after that start lifting again now the injury haunt me again altho not as serious as before. I heard lifting straps might help my condition when lifting weights. But any recommendations on which brand should i get? And where to get it? Thanks. Cuz I aint sure which is good

There's a difference between lifting straps and wrist wraps. Wrist wraps supports your wrists while doing heavy pushing movements as for lifting straps it supports your grip while doing pulling movements.

Musclemania have one.

you sprained your wrist during what exercise ? might want to fix the form or the way you grip the bar?

also straps and wrap is different thing, you hardly need wrist wrap unless you are pressing a huge amount of weight, or low bar squatting heavy

Watch out for these factors when lifting :

1) form
2) Deloading schedule
3) nutrition

There's probably more than these but I highly focus on these first . Just my 2cents from experience and reading stuff online lol

Doing shoulder exercise bro. I think doing Arnold press slightly sprained my wrist

Can elaborate further on deloading schedule

this, i know why, when you're spinning the weight, on the way up, you're suppose to control it, slowly

if you spin too fast, it will create a rotation from the momentum of the dumbbell hence spraining your wrist

Arnold concentrated on hypertrophy so everything should be controlled, time under tension

i've never used a wrist wrap, but looking at the way wrist wrap wraps your wrist, i dont think it can help stopping the momentum from rotation.

for deloading, some prefer to do a scheduled deload, some do it when necessary.

i usually just schedule my deload week near exam or assignment deadline since i will not have energy to go all out either might as well deload to refresh both my mind and body.

usually you deload by doing the same sets and reps and exercise, but dropping the weight to somewhere you feel comfortable, no struggling, usually about 60%

or

drop the sets but going with the same weight you normally train

or

do some fun lift that you've never done before, like replacing benchpress with weighted push ups, or replacing pull ups with pull down or do some burpess or cardio etc...

Yep.. I spin quite fast 😅 guess my injury going to take a while to recover sigh

That means i need two type of it if i am doing pulls up and also bench press?


i do squat too

it depends if you workout with moderate and light weight then don't bother about it

Yes you need straps for pulling and wraps for pushing
That is provided your grip starts to give up during pulling and wrist giving up during pushing
But that is not the best way to overcome this problem
You might want to consider start training forearm and grips
Whats more sexy than having veiny forearm, your biceps and all gets covered by shirt also right, but forearm didnt

First two sets of pull up and bench press are fine, the thitd will start to give way

When you do pushing movements, you angle your knuckles as if you're punching.

So basically your wrist will straight 90 degree up when performing bench press?

of course, and that is why people keep on saying no thumbless grip during benchpress because it will fall easily